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Chapter 10: Despite The Brownies

COHEN

“She’s pregnant. Dr. Val just informed me,” Lance said in an even tone from the other side of my desk. He was sitting in one of the two chairs with one ankle resting on the other knee. He looked calm, but I knew he was excited on the inside.

I frowned at him as my heart leapt in my chest. Pregnant. I was going to have a baby to call my own. An heir. Up until that moment I hadn’t taken it all that seriously. It was just something that was expected of me. But soon I would be raising a child. Alone. Ellie would either be gone from our lives, or dead.

“Has she been evaluated?” I asked.

Lance rolled his eyes. “You mean Ellie? Your mate? Yes, Dr. Val did an ultrasound and said everything looks good.”

I narrowed my eyes at him. “Why are you acting like this?”